Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.